National Year of Reading Star Ideas

From April to December 2008 we are providing monthly sets of "star ideas" for activities to create enjoyable reading opportunities. These are taken from our publication Fully Booked by Eileen Armstrong.

September: You are what you read

Reading is a great way to celebrate and explore cultural, personal and local identities.

Activities for September might include:

• Display who's reading what on every teacher's classroom and office door in the school, including senior management
• Conduct a reading survey in the local shopping centre or public library to find out what or how often people read and why
• Create collages of favourite things that make up you - including things you read
• Map your life so far through your reading material
• Discuss secret reading habits; where, when, how long for, what, why… try this as a spin the bottle game at a reading group
• Survey students about magazines to buy regularly for the library - what new titles do they think would be popular and why?
• Try on other lives for size; try who am I? guessing games to guess the book character and hotseating
• Choose books to match your star sign/personality
• Run a Book Brother debate with online voting; which book characters should go in the Book Brother house and what should the eviction order be?
• Organize speed dating events for recommending books
• Recommend good reads for a best friend/worst enemy/celebrity
• Bookpushing; hold a regular book slot in assembly with staff and students presenting their favourite current read
• Join the reading champions/angels scheme

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